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The $2, to be clear, does still trade. I've been buying contracts here and there in the last couple weeks...I haven't really noticed more-than-normal slippage, and these have been market-orders, to boot.

Yes, someone mentioned it earlier on this thread, and the CBOT confirmed it. The $2 is going away once the December contract expires. Highly unfortunate, as far as I'm concerned. The $2 offered a nice way for small traders to take a position on the broader market trend, in my opinion, even while...

Yeah, the Dowskis are definitely not day-tradeable, IMO. Catch the bigger trend, with wider stops Yes. As liquid and efficient as the S&Ps? No.

I just tried the trade-ideas website - very nice stuff. But I'm disappointed that, from what I can see, I cannot set alerts based on a few technical factors, like a MACD, etc. Any thoughts - or did I miss those on the site somewhere...?

I had no idea the $2 Dow e-mini even existed until August. But since then, I've used it a number of times profitably. I'll switch to them whenever the craziness level gets a little too extreme on the SP-eminis for my account size. Granted though, you can't trade them for 2-3 points, like you...

If you don't mind that your data is going to be the cash-indexes, and not futures-based, go to www.prophetfinance.com. You can pull up daily charts of the S&P going back to the 1960's, and the Dow back to 1915 or so. Yes, daily charts. You don't have to register, either, if you don't want to...

Try this link: www.portfolioscience.com. That's the home page. Look on the lower-left margin of the page. You'll see a little icon that says something like "EXCEL ADD-IN". Click on the link and it will take you to the page with more details. If you happen to use the service, drop me a line - I'm...

Check out : http://www.portfolioscience.com/ps/xl/realtime/features.cfm That's the service I mentioned in the last post.

Ctrader - it may appear that going home short overnight works the most - but that's because the market has in general been quite weak. At some point, that will change. Everyone has their own thoughts on this - mine is, I don't mind going home being short or long overnight, but I don't make a...

I've seen a couple ads in the past few years for an Excel application that uses data from Barchart.com. I have never used the service, or any of barchart's streaming-data services, but it would be worth dropping barchart.com an e-mail and ask them if they still offer the excel service. At least...

My experience has been much the same. Over dozens of trades, I've gotten positive slippage, and negative slippage. I take on the additional risk of perhaps buying the top-tick...but I also don't have to worry about missing a bigger move higher or lower either. If you're using good...

I agree with you 100%... Its just that for my method, I've found all I really need is to see the livecharts-feed, and then trade off support/resistance zones (and one stochastic indicator). Its worked for me so far. Also, I'm not much of a multi-tasker, so the trading style tends to fit my...

I've used livecharts for a couple years now, almost the whole time with a CME feed hooked up. I have no complaints - there are occasional data dropouts, like the previous poster commented on. But overall, for $20, its a bargain, IMO. It used to be that whenever the order-flow got really...

I was referring in my last post to the e-mini-type currency contracts, not the big ones, or the interbank market, which from what I read has much deeper liquidity.

I agree with the last post - unless you're going to use some kind of multi-week trend-following method, you're not going to be able to dodge and weave to well trying to daytrade the currencies. I can't claim to have ever bought any kind of currency contract myself, but I used to punch up the...

Others on ET can discuss the intricacies of FCM's and commission/fee negotiations better than I. But it sounds to me like your guy just needs or wants the higher rate. Better to just yank your account and go someplace else, like the web-brokers you mentioned, rather than deal with "its $11 RT...

Usually I take all my data from the data-logger, and then run it through an algorhythm sequencer. I tell it to look for non-confirmations. Once it identifies a non-confirmation, the data is transferred to an XL spreadsheet, which is programmed to automatically look for correlations between the...

As far as CNBC goes...I presume they quote the big contract, but I really don't know. If you really want to have fun with index-discrepancies...set up charts for the nasdaq composite, the QQQs, the NDs and the NQ's, all on the same screen (or the SP, ES, $SPX, and SPY equivalents)...you...

I can be a little confusing getting used to this stuff. ND is the "big" nasdaq contract... NQ is the mini contract, as you noted. The big contract, during regular trading hours, trades in the pit in Chicago, while the mini contract, during the same hours, trades on the electronic market. That's...

I really like Prophet for daily action, and after-session analysis of the intraday action, using their javacharts application. But, you might want to take a look at Quote.com(http://finance.lycos.com/home/livecharts). It lacks the zoom-in/zoom-out ability that Prophet has, but they post the...